Kelley Currie is a Senior Fellow with the Project 2049 Institute, where she has worked on issues related to democracy, human rights and the rule of law in the Asia-Pacific region since joining the Institute in 2009. Ms. Currie is also the founding director of the Institute’s Burma Transition Initiative. Prior to joining Project 2049, Ms. Currie served as an Asia policy advisor to Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky and in the Office of the Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues. She has also served as senior advisor to the International Committee of the Red Cross; director of government relations for the International Campaign for Tibet; and deputy director for Asia at the International Republican Institute. From 1995-1999, Ms. Currie was foreign policy advisor to Congressman John Porter (R-IL), and concurrently served as the majority staff director of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus. Ms. Currie received a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, and an undergraduate degree in political science from the University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs.